Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
That's Hingan geomancy that's featured in the AST questlines.
Ganen's is Yanxian geomancy.
...right, so I googled this hoping to see some more information on Geomancer (there isn't much) or this information posted on discussions...

And there is none.

Now, I can give the benefit of the doubt. Geomancer is a topic the community thinks about so little and it's possible both forms have been conflated... However. The benefit of the doubt ends when every single entry where anyone acknowledges the existence of both being separate concepts was written by someone named Seraphor.

So I'm sorry but I really have to ask, where did you get this information from? Because according to Google, only you speak of this information. You are the only source we got.

Because if this is true, then it clearly eluded people altogether. Or perhaps the devs didn't do as good a job as explaining that there is such a large difference between both cases. And I really do want to know more about this lore, I'd just be loathe to see it all as a misunderstanding only you had from it :x

Either way? The one we see in Hingashi via the AST quests is just Conjury by another name.
And the one in Doma, AKA, Yanxia, also makes use of Earth, Wind and Water, with Swallow's Compass as the most direct example. Rather than focusing on healing, those conjurers simply take a more offensive approach to our basic Conjury spells.
Keep in mind, Conjury as we know it in Eorzea is also very limited, as it's controlled directly by the Elementals and learned mostly only by the Padjal. It is possible that, just like how we can access Holy and stuff like that, there are spells that are as strong as the ones in Swallow's Compass, but have since been forbidden by Eorzean doctrine. An example of this is how they can clearly manipulate Water as an element in more diverse ways than us, who were taught that Water is kind of blah as an element, and thus goes underused. Meaning that those Geomantic monks aren't necessarily any different, they just apply that magic more offensively than a WHM does.

...Also, doesn't Gosetsu abandon the Samurai way to become a monk and then returns in Endwalker using conjury spells? Sure, he might have learned the Hingan way, but there's no reason why he wouldn't take the path closest to home. Not when their Yanxian temples are right there next to the Doman Enclave...

The only thing I did find for the potential future of Geomancy as a whole is the fact that apparently Yoshida wanted a traditional asian caster as a Job at some point before Stormblood, and that SAM and RDM were just community-demanded additions.